After months of railing against the ‘separatists’ and ‘socialists’ bringing this country to rack and ruin by aligning with the Liberals to defeat the Conservatives, Harper is being saved from a non-confidence vote by those very same separatists & socialists. The NDP in particular (those dangerous socialists) have had a pretty easy ride in the last couple of governments by being able to vote against the government with impunity knowing the Liberals would likely end up giving grudging support to the government.

Ignatieff turned those tables around with his declaration that the Liberals would no longer support the government and in fact would bring the government down at the first opportunity. The declaration placed the Liberals back where they belonged, opposing the government instead of running scared while trying to look tough. Now Layton and/or Duceppe has to either step to the plate or we head into an election. That is the way it should be.

Harper may yet rue the day he decided to resurrect the spectre of a coalition to try to slam those in opposition to him. He now finds himself in a coalition, even if it isn’t of his deliberate making. His political survival depends now upon his ability to keep the support of either the Bloc or the NDP. Neither party is particularly scared of Harper, they have nothing to lose if they let the government fall rather than be stomped on by the nasty partisan politics of Stephen Harper and his band of bullies.

For his part, Harper needs to recognize he’s heading a minority government which needs the support and confidence of the House of Commons in order to remain in power. It appears he’s a bit of a slow learner. He’d much rather treat every adversary as an enemy who needs to be crushed. Hey little guy, unless you are planning on being a dictator for life, the system says you can’t crush adversaries. In fact, sometimes you have to figure out how to find common ground and work with them.

What waits to be seen now is, what and when will the Liberals make their platform public enough there is something for the public to embrace. “We can do better” sounds good but where’s the meat?

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